From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Sat, 5 Nov 2016 14:55:43 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH 3/3] snowball-{hdmiservice, init}: remove packages In-Reply-To: <1d4b32b4-f3a9-9349-18dc-ddea93d8a52c@mind.be> References: <1478352758-28778-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1478352758-28778-3-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1d4b32b4-f3a9-9349-18dc-ddea93d8a52c@mind.be> Message-ID: <20161105145543.798906f8@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Sat, 5 Nov 2016 14:48:16 +0100, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > > +config BR2_PACKAGE_SNOWBALL_HDMISERVICE > > + bool "snowball-hdmiservice removed" > > + select BR2_LEGACY > > + help > > + We no longer have support for the Snowball platform in > > + Buildroot, so this package was no longer useful. > > ... explain that here: > > If you need this package, get it from the buildroot-2016.08 > tarball and put it in a BR2_EXTERNAL tree. You need to give the > package a different name however. > > Hm, that last bit makes it a bit complicated so perhaps adding such limited > information to the help text doesn't help a lot... Well, we would have to add this message to pretty much each and every package being removed from Buildroot, so I find it rather pointless to have it specifically for those packages. I'm pretty sure nobody uses Buildroot anymore for Snowball related stuff. The igloocommunity.org domain name is for sale, and it's really only because the source code is hosted on Github that it still survives. Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com